I'd like to say that, contrary to international perception of the French, de Gaulle socks Hitler in the jaw harder than Captain America and wins the war single-handedly! But actually, the Blackhawks rush in, push Hitler out of a window...

Oh, did I mention there's an invisible man in this story? There's an invisible man in this story. Who wears glasses.

Anyway, back in Blackhawk #262, all the extra Hitlers have been dispatched to assassinate the leaders of the Allied countries. Here's everybody's World War II pal and Cold War villain, Josef Stalin!

from Blackhawk #262

That one's dead too! Well, what about the Hitler planning to kill FDR by crashing a plane into him? He's trapped when Olaf of the Blackhawks strings up a trip wire. Geez, when did Hitler become Wile E. Coyote?

Even Winston Churchill gets to see one of the exploding Hitlers. What, they just blow ip when you thump 'em on the chest? Talk about having a manufacturing defect.

That's pretty much fake Hitlers all around, then?

So, as we wrap up "Let's Kill Hitler" today, with a big heap of Hitlers piled up in the back yard, please note that none of them are Baby Hitlers.

It's so rare that a comic book cover caption so clearly spells out the exact theme of my post! Admittedly, Spy Smasher is about to shoot Hitler rather than smash Hitler, but we'll let it slide, even though a comic book entitled Hitler Shooter would've sold a bajillion copies in 1943.

So, if we've learned nothing from the past three posts, it's that the Original Human Torch and Toro blasted, their way into Hitler's bunker in April '45, and the Torch and killed Hitler (even though his brain patterns were preserved in a clone body by Arnim Zola). That's a pretty good claim for the Human Torch to being the member of the WWII group the Invaders that killed Hitler. Right? Right, Bucky Barnes formerly of the Invaders, who is now the new Captain America?

Panels from The Saga of the Original Human Torch #3 (June 1990), script by Roy Thomas, pencils by Rich Buckler, inks by Alfred Alcala, colors by Nel Yomtov, letters by Timothy Harkins

Wait, what did you say? "Hitler's consciousness had been transferred at the moment of his body's death into a brain cloned by Arnim Zola?" (which later became the Hate-Monger?) Well, that changes the verdict, guys!